Skillz has sued a second gaming company — Papaya Gaming — for using bots in skill-based games that are supposed to be between humans.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in New York comes after Skillz won a $42.9 million judgment in a patent-infringement lawsuit against AviaGames which surfaced similar evidence of using bots in skill-based human games.
The new lawsuit against Papaya Gaming…
Heather Cerlan, a senior artist who has worked on a dozen triple-A games, is leading a team of nine ex-Bethesda Game Studios developers working on a new game.
The team making a multiplayer/co-op RPG simulation game under a mysterious new studio whose name isn’t disclosed…
Marty O’Donnell, the creator of the music for Bungie games like Halo and Destiny, announced he is running for a seat in Congress in Nevada.
O’Donnell lives in Lone Mountain, a neighborhood in Las Vegas, and he will run against incumbent Democrat Susie Lee in November in…
Epic Games ‘hackers’ admit threat of leak was phony
March 5, 2024
An alleged hack of Epic Games was revealed, by the “hackers” in question, to be fake. Last week, a ransomware group claimed to have made off with 200GB of unspecified data from Epic Games, with the presumption being that it planned to extort money from the company. However, the group has now said that it doesn’t actually have such data, and was trying to pull a con on the company.
The group…
Yuzu, the popular Nintendo Switch emulator, shut down today, days after Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the developers.
At the same time, Yuzu’s parent company Tropic Haze and Nintendo filed a joint motion to settle the lawsuit, with Yuzu paying Nintendo $2.4 million.
Mattel partners with Zynga’s Rollic to make Barbie mobile game
February 29, 2024
Mattel has teamed up with Zynga’s Rollic casual game studio to make a new Barbie mobile game.
So yes, there is finally a new Barbie game coming, and, no, it’s not called Barbenheimer.
El Segundo, California-based Mattel is teaming up with Take-Two’s Zynga/Rollic to…
The main task for Activision is building any Call of Duty game is to “not screw it up.” And so the pending March 21 launch of Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile will be a big test for the development ecosystem that the company built for its big free-to-play game release on iOS and Android.
To make sure this launch would go down well with fans, Activision included the popular Verdansk and Rebirth…
GamerSafer acquires Minecraft-focused Minehut server community
February 29, 2024
GamerSafer has acquired the Minehut server from Super Minehut community League, taking over a popular Minecraft server community.
Minehut has been around since 2015 and it has had millions of players. It still has about 500,000 monthly active users, said Rodrigo Tamellini…
Nintendo today held its Partner Showcase Direct, in which it revealed games coming to Switch from its third-party partners in 2024. While most eyes were keen for the former Xbox exclusives that were coming to Switch — Pentiment and Grounded being confirmed during the show…
Xbox confirms all four new multiplatform games
February 22, 2024
Xbox has announced the titles of the four games it’s bringing to other consoles: Pentiment, Hi-Fi Rush, Grounded and Sea of Thieves. Pentiment and Grounded are coming to Nintendo Switch — as previously announced in today’s Nintendo Direct — as well as PlayStations 5 and 4 on February 22 and April 16 respectively. Hi-Fi Rush is coming to PS5 on March 19, while Sea of Thieves launches on the…
